{"id":785014,"date":"2026-07-26T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785014\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:06:14","slug":"science-word-of-the-day-lithics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785014\/","title":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Lithics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-f3505852-816a-11f1-bace-e9f63951c802\">Science word of the day: Lithics<\/p>\n<p>Pronunciation: LITH&#8217;-iks<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-f3505852-816a-11f1-bace-e9f63951c802-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">What it means: In <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">archaeology<\/a>, lithics refers to artifacts made of stone. Scientists used to think Homo sapiens was the only human species to make stone tools. But like many oversimplified stories about human evolution, this one turned out to be a bust. Humans in Indonesia were making sharp-edge stone flakes <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/human-evolution\/1-5-million-year-old-stone-tools-from-mystery-human-relative-discovered-in-indonesia-they-reached-the-region-before-our-species-even-existed\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/human-evolution\/1-5-million-year-old-stone-tools-from-mystery-human-relative-discovered-in-indonesia-they-reached-the-region-before-our-species-even-existed\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/human-evolution\/1-5-million-year-old-stone-tools-from-mystery-human-relative-discovered-in-indonesia-they-reached-the-region-before-our-species-even-existed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1.5 million years ago<\/a>, before our species even existed.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">How to use it in a sentence: Lithics preserve well, so scientists base a lot of what we know about ancient civilizations on their stone tools, while artifacts such as textiles or leather rot away.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-f3505a32-816a-11f1-b1da-df564d1ce119\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Can you crack our science word of the day puzzle, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chain Word<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p>TOPICS<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flex-none p-2.5 text-white bg-neutral-950 hover:bg-neutral-500 hover:underline hover:underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/tag\/science-word-of-the-day\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"\/tag\/science-word-of-the-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nscience word of the day<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Lithics Pronunciation: LITH&#8217;-iks What it means: In archaeology, lithics refers to artifacts made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-785014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}